(Stillwater, Okla.) In separate cases filed Wednesday, two convicts, one a sex offender and the other a gunman, were charged with attacking guards at the Cimarron Correctional Center in Cushing.
Corey Antoine Hightower, 35, who is serving sentences for two sex offenses, was charged Wednesday with assault and battery on a female correctional officer at the private prison in Cushing on April 24.
According to state Department of Corrections records, Hightower has been in prison for eight years and remains held in the Cushing facility.
Hightower served about three and one-half years of a five-year prison term for larceny from a house in 2004 in Oklahoma County — after his original probation was revoked in 2007, DOC records show.
When he finished that sentence in 2010, Hightower began serving an 11-year prison term for forcible oral sodomy in 2006 in Oklahoma County, DOC records show.
After Hightower completes that sentence in 2021, he must serve a three-year prison term for indecent exposure in 2006 in Oklahoma County, DOC records show.
The other convict, Denyreo Donnell Leslie Chairs, 26, has been transferred from the Cushing prison to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, DOC records show.
Chairs was charged Wednesday with assault and battery on a male correctional officer and possession of contraband described as a cell telephone, both on June 2 at the Cushing prison.
Chairs was first sent to prison at age 17 for aggravated assault and battery in Tulsa County in 2005 on a three-year sentence, of which he served about six months, DOC records show.
Chairs was also given three concurrent four-year prison terms from Tulsa County for feloniously pointing a weapon, possession of a firearm after a former felony conviction and possession of a drug, all in 2006, of which he served about three and one-half years, DOC records show.
Three years after he was released from prison, Chairs was convicted of shooting with intent to kill in 2012 in Tulsa County and given a 12-year sentence, DOC records show.
Chairs was also given a concurrent 10-year prison term for possession of forged notes in 2012 in Tulsa County, DOC records show.
Chairs was also given a 15-year prison term for eluding a police officer and possessing a drug with intent to distribute in 2012 in Muskogee County, followed by five years of probation, DOC records show.
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